Improvement in fly-nets



UNIT-@STATES PATENT QFFICE* WILLIAMSOHIEE on BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPRQVEMENTIN FLv-NE-rs..

Specification forming part of `Letters Patent No. 115,374, dated May 30,1871.v

I, WILLIAM Somma, of Boston, Massachu; sett-s, have invented certainImprovements in Nets, of which the following is a specification:

Nature and Objects `of the Intention. My invention relates to a net tobe used in ridding apartments,with slight' trouble, and

very expeditiously and effectively, of common i#house-flies, andavoiding by its use the many disgusting consequences of the variousily-- poisons. It is called the house-Hy net.77

Figure I represents the net, of a long and conical shape, With onesideiiattened, and my peculiar method of attaching the ends of the i Wirehoop. Fig. II represents the socket ready for the handle.

On the shape of the net and on the peculiar method of attaching the Wireof the net to the handle depend the efficacy of the net and itsdurability.

In Fig. I it is seen that the net is long and conical, with thewire` onone side straightened, so as to render that side of the net iiat. The

t length and conical shape are adopted to -pre- Y vent the iiy, whencaptured, from. escaping 5.

and in this respect my net differs from a common entomological net,which is made large V at the bottom to avoid injuring the captured linsect. The straightening of the wire on one side allows the net to beswept close to the ceiling and into the corners of the room, by whichthe person using the net can secure a larger haul at each sweep,` asWell as arrest,

all fugitives that-Would, but for this, escape to a secure retreat wherethe net could not reach them.

In Fig. I, at 0.0, and in Fig. II, at b b, are shown the devices bywhich I secure the wire frame of my net to the handle in such a Way thatit will be rm, and run no risk of Working loose, as all other methodswhich I have tried invariably do.

Fig. II represents a Socket which iits onto the handle of thc net andb1) is a hole which traverses it, through which the ends of the vWirehoop are to be passed, as in Fig. I, at c c.

,These ends may be flattened a little before in sertion, and both shouldthen be firmly soldered.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The above-described house-fly net, of a long and conical shape, With aflattened side, and a wire hoop at the top attached to a handle socket,substantially as described.

- WM. SOHIER.

Witnesses NATH. B. PALMER, F. S.W1LLIAMS.

